Distracted – Page 2

I find it so

I find it so easy to get distracted – I try not to do more than one thing at any one time. Elliott Gould

Try not to catch

Try not to catch a girl when she’s not in a great mood, tired or distracted. Elizabeth Tan

I want to have a lasting experience with God. Sometimes I feel like I understand the divinity of this world, but then I loose it because I get distracted by my petty desires and fears. I want to be with God all the time. But I don’t want to be a monk, or totally give … Read more

I made sure that

I made sure that instead of people making fun of me, like every comedian probably says, I made fun of myself first so they would get distracted and just laugh. I was pretty brutally picked on for a while growing up. It was always the really pretty girls, the hot girls and then there was … Read more

I focus best and

I focus best and am most productive when I’m working in a friend’s empty apartment. It’s hard for me to work at home. Too easy to procrastinate online, too easy to be distracted by the state of perpetual domestic chaos that rules my home. Elissa Schappell

The incapacity of a

The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may often assume the appearance and produce the effects of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy. If Alaric himself had been introduced into the council of Ravenna, he would probably have advised the same measures which were actually pursued by the ministers of Honorius. Edward Gibbon

Complexity means distracted effort.

Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort. Edward de Bono

The poet, distracted by

The poet, distracted by politics, asks of poetry that it make itself useful like metal or flour, that it get ready to stain its face with coal dust and fight body to body. Eduardo Galeano

If we\’re distracted from

If we’re distracted from the continual flow of perfect mind that we’re in, suddenly everything configures, everything solidifies. Suddenly a shape appears out of flux, a world appears, karmas appear, pasts, futures, presents, time structures, ying and yang appear. Frederick Lenz

Look at how beautiful

Look at how beautiful life is, and just keep looking until you see it. You don’t see what is in front of you because you’re so distracted by your thoughts. Frederick Lenz